The Sun. — London, England, 1838-03-20 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ...... 57 minutes after 0 I Evening 37 minutes after 10 Just published at 35., and in Folio at is. 6d. Part IV of SAUNDERS' POLITICAL REFORMERS, containing Portraits and Memoirs of GEORGE BYNG, Esq., M.P. Right Hon. C. P. THOMSON, M.P. (From Paintings by George Hayter, Esq.) And THOMAS WYSE, Esq., M.P. *** Parts Ito 111 may be had of all Booksellers ; also thick Folio Proof Impressions of the Portraits at ss. each. Now ready, No. 1., at 6d., Part I. at 25., with PORTRAIT OF PAPINEAU, THE CIVIL WAR IN THE CANADAS, With a general and a highly interesting Account of the Pro ♦inces and their Inhabitants; comprising :- 1 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Settlement. 2. Re sources and Trade of the Country. 3. Description of the Country and Climate. 4. Social Condition of the People, Manners, Habits, Customs, Amusements, Songs, &c. 5. Religion, Educa tion, the Press, &c. 6. Population. 7. Information for Emi grants. 8. Memoirs of the Canadian Leaders, &c. with VIEWS, MAPS, PLANS, AND PORTRAITS. London : J. Saunders, Jun. 7, Dyer's Buildings, Holborn Bars. DEDICATED by PERMISSION to HER MAJESTY. On Thursday next, March 22, in 2 Vols. Bvo., with Portraits, Q UEEN ELIZABETH and HER TIMES, A SERIES of ORIGINAL LETTERS. Selected from the Inedited Private Correspondence of the Lord Treasurer Burghley, the Great Earl of Leicester, the Secretaries Walsingham and Smith, Sir Christopher Hatton, and most of the d.stinguished Persons of the period. Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A., F. S. A., &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. EAST INDIA DOCK HOUSE. 20th March, 1838. T HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA DOCK COMPANY hereby give notice, that a HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIE TORS of the said COMPANY, will be held at their House, No. 49, Leadenhall-street, in the City of London, on WxnxEsnay the 28th instant, at One o'Clock in the afternoon, precisely, for the purpose of considering of a Dividend to be made on the capital st. , ck of the said Company for the half-year ending on the 225th inst., 1,11,1 also for the election of four Directors of the said Company in the room of the same number going out of office by rotation. By Order of the Court, THOMAS BAKER, Secretary. N.B. The chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely. The Transfer Books of this Company will close on Thursday 22d inst., and open on Monday the 2d of April next. MEETING OF THE ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS OF IRELAND. At a GENERAL PUBLIC MEETING of the Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland, convened to consider the provisions of the " Bill for the better regulation of the prof ess i on o f Att orney an d Solicitor in Ireland," an for other important professional purposes, held in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, JOSIAS DUNN, in the Chair, The following Resolutions were unanimously entered into : Moved by Mr. BEASLEY, seconded by Mr. BA RLOW— Resolved—That as the interests of all classes of society are so eply involved with the performance of the duties of the profession of Attorney and Solicitor, the exercise of that profession should be delegated exclusively to those whose respectability and professional education shall have rendered them capable of discharging those elties with integrity and skill, and of preserving inviolate that e,eifidence which must of necessity be reposed in them, and with oet which the relation of Attorney and Solicitor and Client cannot with safety exist. Moved by Mr. GODDARD ; seconded by Mr. TANDY : Resolved—:That the provisions of the several Acts of Parliament, and the rules and bye-laws of the Benchers of the Honourable So ciety of Queen's Inns, made for regulating the profession of Attor ney and Solicitor, are found by daily experience totally insufficient fie- the purpose, particularly of examining into the qualifications of persons seeking to become me m b ers of that useful and honour a bl e profession, and that it is necessary that those laws and regulations s..ould be amended by Legislative enactment. Moved by Mr. AitstsTeoxo ; seconded by Mr. MeAnes— Resolved—That although the Benchers of the Society of the Queen's Inns were heretofore elected as well from the profession of ikttorney and Solicitor, as from the members of the Bar, and although the profession of Attorney and Solicitor have contri hated upwards of 100,0001. to the funds of that Society, more tt:an one-half of which sum has been paid for the express pur pose of erecting Chambers for the exclusive use of the Attor neys and Solicitors—yet for many years past the Benchers have I,ien exclusively elected from the profession of the Bar ; no Chambers have been erected, and the Attorneys and Solicitors gerive no advantage whatever from being admitted nominally as members of that Society, except a limited use of the Library. It .s therefore just and expedient that such anomalous connexion should cease, and that henceforward the Attorneys and Solicitors should not be compelled to contribute to the funds, or be under the controul of a Society from which they derive no benefit ; in whose Council they have no representatives ; in the manage ment of whose affairs they have no voice, and over the applica tion of whose funds they have no controul. At the same time, it as not by any means the object or wish of the profession of Attorney and Solicitor to be freed from the controul of the Judges of the uperior Courts. Moved by Mr. WATT ; seconded by Mr. COSTELLO : Resolved—That the faithful and zealous discharge of the duti of ev cry profession is greatly promoted by having some honou a bl e preferment, to the enjoyment of which the members such profession may look forward, and that the spirit of em lattou, which the hope of attaining such preferment is calculat to produce, should be especially encouraged in the profession Attorney and Solicitor, which profession eontributes more largel than any other to the revenues of the country ; and as ever other profession has set apart exclusively for its members, situa tiowe of emolument, or retirement, the Attorneys and Solici of li•eland are entitled to the emoluments of those offices conn with Ole practical administration of the laws, not being judicia but purely ministerial, and the duties of which, , they are from their professional education and habits best calculated to discharge with advantage to the public. Moved by Mr. GLENNY, seconded by Mr. TUCKER, Resolved—That with a view to remedy the defects in the ex isting laws in relation to the profession of Attorney and Soli citor in Ireland, and to relieve that profession from their anoma lous connexion with the honourable society of Queen's Inns, the present measure has been prepared, by which it is sought to vest in the profession itself, (subject to the controul of the judges of the superior courts), the power of making rules for the regula tion of their profession, as well as for admission of Attorneys and Solicitors into the several c our t s ; reserv i ng, however, an, ulti mate appeal to the discretion of those Courts—and further, it is sought to enact, that the several offices connected with the practi cal administration of justice in Ireland, should be set apart exclu sively for their profession. Moved by Mr. WATT, seconded by W. SCOTT : Resolved—That a Bill founded upon the foregoing Resolutions be forthwith brought into Parliament, and that the Draft Bill pre pared for that purpose be now read. (Signed) JOSIAS DUNN, Chairman. The publication of THE SrN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. WITH WHICH t , THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON: TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1838. Mr. Vitraua's motion on Thursday excites a great deal more interest in the community than in the Legislature. We refer to that as another proof of a want of sympathy between the tmo, which perchance may be compatible with safety in an absolute Monarchy, where the Sovereign relies on his guards, and rules over slaves, but in a repre sentative country, must in the end be fatal to the Legisla ture itself. One correspondent, whose useful and practical letter we insert, also suggests that as the laws were passed by force, by force they should be repealed. We dare not further notice his method for carrying that object into effect, lest we be charged with exciting sedition ; but that one man can be found to conceive and recommend attacks on the landlords—and thousands would, we know, be ready, at the least glimpse of a chance of success, to execute them—ought to appal the land "owning legislators. It would be for us, were we land wners, frightful to reflect on the manner in which they have sunk in public esteem since 1815, and how al most universally they are hated and cursed. Only a few gears ago they, and all who were connected with agricul ture—the noble art by which the community is fed—were the great objects of public admiration. Too much could not then be done for the landowners and the agriculturists" whose services were considered invaluable; but the instant: they taxed the food of the people to enrich themselves, a' revulsion took place in public feeling, and the hatred which the legislative landlords have incurred is so great that the immense services of the working agriculturist can scarcely save his useful occupation from contempt and' obloquy. The law perverts the natural current of men's moral feeling, and like the pestiferous usurpations of an, ambitious priesthood, which lead men to deny God, is •one of the greatest curses that can be inflicted on society. No occupation, sure►y, ought to be more honoured, as none is more honourable, than agriculture ; none ought to be better rewarded, or more crowded with youthful aspi rants to share its emoluments and promote its improve ment ; but none is in fact more avoided—so that for any )outh not the son of a farmer to think of agriculture as a means of getting a living is scarcely ever heard or. To have the noblest of arts thus doomed to public contempt The Tories are thrown into extacies of joy when they can find a single spot in Ireland in which the conduct of the inhabitants can, under any plausible pretext, be held up as an exception to that tranquillity and obedience to the laws which gencrally prevail in the sister country. The reign of Toryism there was the reign of terror and confusion, and the party cannot stomach the happy contrast which Ireland exhibits under Lord Ain: GRAVE'S Government. This sufficiently accounts for the eagerness with which the thundering organ of the Tories pounces upon the calendar of the county of Tipperary for the Spring Assizes, which happens to be, in appearance, heavier than it was last year. It was in vain that the Judge who presides at them! Assizes pointed out the cause of this fallacious appearance, namely, that all cases of man slaughter are entered in the calendar as cases of murder, and expressed his hope that this misnomer—so common on the other side of the wate ar in ordinary parlance--should in future, be avoided in th. e language of criminal law. It was in vain that good faith and good feeling dictated a pause in vituperative proceedings, until the result of the assizes should have been known. 'What influence can be allowed to such considerations in the breast of a party hack, who lives, and moves, and has his being, in the atmosphere of misrepresentation. While this wretched creature applies his microscopic eye and multiplying glass to the calender of the county of Tipperary, (Ines he notice the singular and rather important facts, that; in the county of Roscommon there are but seventeen pri: itmers for trial, and that too for offences of the most insigni. Scant character? That in Lei trim there has not been asi agle capital conviction ? That in the town of Galway thorn •e has not been one solitary offence for the investigatiot I of the judge during these assizes ? No, all this is car efully suppressed. Show us such a state of things under any Tory administration that ever governed Ireland! At no remote period the T. inns justly proclaimed to the world that in politics we had) too much Church." Well Arrived. Due ArrivedMAlLS; . Due.' Arrived. = and public aversion is an immense public injury cause d by ue. o America.......... 1 1 France..........., 0 1 Lisbon 0 the law, which avowedly starves the people to enrich the o Brazil... ti Buenos Arcs... 0 0 Hamburg........ 1 0 Mexico o landlords. If we could suppose for one moment that the o Carthagena...... 0 0 Holland ...... 1 0 Ostend 1 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden o landowners had gained by it all the wealth which they 0 0 Leeward Islands I Waterford 0 0 Flanders have prevented the people from creating, we should think them great losers by bartering for that the affections and respect of the nation ; but when we know what has been their uneasy pecuniary condition since 1815—how conti nually the agriculturists have complained and supplicated for relief—how, year after year, it has been found that they were absolutely unable to pay their full rent and their full tithes, we are at once convinced that no class has suffered so much from the Corn-laws as the landowners and farmers. One source of increased rent is increased agri cultural skill, which supplies more produce at less cost ; and a law which like the Corn-law makes all that is con nected with agriculture and the land hateful to the most intelligent part of the community, necessarily keeps enter prising youths and keeps capital away from agriculture, and checks the progress of agricultural improvement. Thus the suicidal Corn Law prevents the increase of rent ; and the blind and avaricious landowners, grasping after a handful of eggs, have strangled the goose which was laying them a golden egg every day throughout the year, and year after year. One of the stupid pretexts on which these foolish men both impoverish themselves and earn the general hatred is, that the produce of our manufactures is protected by duties against competition, and therefore the growth of corn must also be protected. But if it had never been demonstrated, as it has been over and over again, that these protecting duties are in the great majority of cases injurious to the manufacturers, there is such a wide dis tinction between food and silk, that it argues a total want of discrimination to apply the same rule to both. Of what importance is it to the great community, that the land owners' wives and daughters must pay a trifle more for their gowns and shawls, and the landowners themselves must pay a little more for their cutlery and hard-ware, than they would have to pay—though we do not know that they ac tually pay more—were there no protrecting duties for Eng lish made silks and steel work ? Such protecting duties may in the long run limit employment, and prevent the people from obtaining food ; but the effect is so distant and doubtful, and the process so indirect, that no sentiment of aversion, mush less of ardent hatred, can arise in any part of the community, in consequence of such protecting duties. But the Corn-laws immediately limit the supply of food— they declare is no doubtful or uncertain terms, that no man living in the land of England shall supply himself with bread not grown here, unless he pay a large tax, not even to those who grow his food here, but to those who possess the monopoly ofthe soil. The operation of such a law is immediate, direct, and certain ; it restrains the willing industry of the people, and compels them to submit to idleness, hunger, star vation, and death. Of its indirect and remote effects,they know nothing. It dooms parents to see their offspring starve and perish from that hunger which they cannot relieve, though willing to purchase food by labour ; and as they bury their hopes in the cold grave, they loudly curse the authors of their sufferings. The intense ness of the hatred which the Corn Laws have justly excited is well depicted by EBENEZER ELLIOT, the Corn-law Rhymer, who speaks the sentiments of his class, and describes them brooding over a dark and malignant ani mosity towards the bread taxers, such as can only be matched in Ireland, or France before the Revolution. Such is now the altered condition of the landed Aristocracy of England, who were once honoured as the first men of the world. It is felt, too, that the Corn-laws and the new Poor-law have the same origin—at least the landowners are the persons for whose especial benefit it was passed. On the one hand they pass a law to exonerate themselves from relieving the necessities of the people, and on the other they will not allow them to exchange their labour for food. They doom them to starvation, and appear to deny them relief. The union of two such laws, springing from the same source, seems almost to justify resistance ; and we cannot be surprised that the Poor-law should be opposed in the manufacturing districts, where the starving effect of the Corn-law is most painfully felt. To justify such a measure, which produces such mischievous effects, by alleging a trumpery protecting duty on silks and steel, is quite worthy of the stunted intellect of our legislating landowners. We are sure that we shall have continual opportunities of referring to a law, till it be destroyed, which separates the landowners from the rest of the community ; and we shall now content ourselves with directing public attention to our correspondent's letter, who has ably adverted to the effects of a Corn-law on our foreign trade. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD'S Bill to amend the Law of Copyright has been printed. The object of the Bill, as our readers are aware, is to extend the time for which authors possess an exclusive right in their works, by giving the author of any book, hereafter to be published, a copyright for the whole term of his natural life, and sixty years beyond. This is the main provision of the Bill, which is drawn up with care, and seems well calculated to effect the object aimed at—as far at least as that can be done by legal enact ments. In any measure for the protection of literary pro perty introduced by the author of " Ion," (a tragedy) it was not to be supposed that the interests of the Drama would be overlooked. We find, accordingly, from clause 23, that where the solo right of representing a dramatic piece now belongs to the author, it shall endure for his life, and for sixty years after his death ; and if the author is dead, his representatives shall enjoy it for sixty years from his death. Some of our Contemporaries have taken alarm at the !effects likely to be produced by this.measure. We cannot say that we participate in their fears about a monopoly against the interests of the public. In our opinion the principal effect of the Bill will be to increase the popularity of the Learned Gentleman among the literary coteries f the metropolis. We have been informed by an eminent üblisher, that the lapse of a very few years extinguishes the slue of the copyright of ninety-nine out of every hundred orks that are published, and that he would not give an dditional farthing for a work in consideration of any exten "on of the term for which copyright is at present held. his may be mortifying to literary pride, but authors are orn to mortification as the sparks fly upwards. Be this, owever, as it may, Mr. TALFOURD has provided against any chance of detriment to the public, by inserting in his Bill a clause providing that if five years shall be allowed to elapse,either after the twenty-eight years of existing copyright or after the author's death, without publication of any work out of print, any one may, on permission obtained from the LORD CHANCELLOR, re-publish such work. This provision, will, we think, afford a sufficient security to the public against any want of supply in the article of literature. OM. • 1:061e. zht THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1838 it might say so, for that sacred body stops improvement at every turn. Education is stopped, and freedom is with held, because the interest of the Church might be endan gered by the people being instructed and independent. There is not a hamlet in the whole empire where the Church is not a cause of strife ; and the otherwise peace ful vales of England, reflect the miseries of the tithe system of Ireland. There lies before us a return of tithe commutations already entered into, and the rent charge for them, they being a mere fragment of the whole, is nearly 152,0001. a year. Now when we con sider the toil and drudgery which must be annually undergone to produce that sum, and the misery, the drivings, the heart-burnings, the bickerings which are annually experienced before that sum is paid, we still hold to the former opinion of the Times, and say that there is amongst us " too much Church." Now our Contem porary has got on this, as on all other subjects, a new light ; and this morning he speaks of the " Venerable Church of England,"and declares that the" SOVEREIGN holds her crown on condition of rendering the Royal power in all cases subser vient to the maintenance and guardianship of that sacred national institution." If that be the condition on which Royal power exists amongst us and demands our allegiance, her MAJESTY will soon find that over the hearts of multitudes of her now faithful subjects she has no hold. All but Churchmen will wish Royal power to be at an end. The Times must seek to overturn the Monarchy, as we have long thought that it continually endeavours to degrade and destroy all our institutions, when it describes the Regal power as the mere servant o f the English Church, composed of the worst order of priests which are now established in any Protestant country. To be the Queen of the Church and the slave of the priesthood may be the choice of our young SOVEREIGN, but she will then be only the head of a sect—the chief of a bigotted faction, and not the first magistrate of all this free and mighty nation. EXPENCE OF THE EARL OF DURHAM'S MISSION. We copied an article yesterday from the Times, attack ing, with great vehemence, the Earl of DURHAM'S mission to Canada. Our Contemporary was particularly smart on the probable expense, and was most earnestly desirous to have the expense of some Tory Commissions, and the ex pense of Lord DURHAM'S former mission placed in juxta position, that it. might institute a comparison between them. From its own columns of March 18, 1833, the desired information has been extracted this morning by the Chronicle, which neglects no opportunity to pounce on the Times. We borrow so much of the extracts from the Times of 1833, as may serve to rebut the statements is the Times of yesterday : TIMES, MARCII 18, 1833. —Lord Durham's resignation of the expensive emoluments of office, when his health no longer permitted him to discharge official duties, and his advancement a step in the cheap honours of the Peerage, from which the public can suffer no loss, and he can derive no advantage or distinction, have, as might have been expected, been made the occasion of a most rancorous attack on his character and ser vices by the Tory press. The violence and injustice of this assault in a paper of Saturday (yesterday) may be reckoned a measure of the energy with which his Lordship has always supported his liberal principles, and of the efficiency with which he resisted the enemies of popular rights. The Tories and Anti-Reformers can never forgive his persevering con sistency in the cause of Reform, or the able speech in which he maintained the claim of the metropolitan districts to have Parliamentary representatives. There is nothing more easy than to ascribe sordid motives to the most disinterested actions of public men, without the slight est foundation for such charges. No species of calumny pre sents so fair a chance as this of gaining reputation for its author at so small a risk of character in case of failure. This general remark has been suggested not only by the article in the paper we allude to, but by the absurd reports which had got abroad, and which had reached our ears, respecting the expenses of Lord Durham's re cent mission. While the Noble Lord was in office, we ab stained from any allusion to the subject ; but, as he has now resigned, it may be proper to mention, that all these attacks on the extravagant expenses of his embassy are utterly devoid of truth. His Lordship undertook a very deli cate and very difficult task, in circumstances where an extra expenditure might have been warranted, but the following ac count will show that he took no advantage of his position to incur unnecessary charges either to gratify personal vanity or to acquire a silly reputation for splendid extravagance. The expense of Sir Stratford Canning's mission to Russia in 1824 was 5,4001. The expense of the permanent embassy went on at the same time. Sir S. Canning was lodged and entertained by the Minister Plenipotentiary, Mr. Ward. The expense of the Duke of Wellington's mission to Russia in 1826 was 4,5361. 16s. 3d. The expense of the permanent embassy under Lord Strangford went on at the same time. The Duke of Wellington was lodged and entertained at the Emperor's expense as a Russian Field-Marshal. The Duke of Devonshire received for his special mission to Russia, in 1826, 10,0001. The expense of Lord Durham's mission to Russia is 5,4401. 13s. 6d. Lord Durham had not only the duties and expenditure of the special mission, but of the permanent em bassy imposed on him, there being no resident ambassador ; and Lord Durham, who was instructed to act in that capacity also, had to entertain the Ministers, Corps Diplornatigue, and the English residents at St. Petersburg. Lord Durham was obliged also, in furtherance of the objects of his mission, to return home by Berlin, Frankfort, and Brussels. The deputation now in London from the Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland, have had conferences with Lord PLUNKETT ; the LORD CHANCELLOR Of IRELAND ; with Lord MORPETH ; with the ATTORNEY-GRNERAL for IRE. LAND ; and with Sir EDWARD SUDDEN ; Mr. O'CONNELL, Mr. SHAW, Mr. Serjeant BALL, Mr. LITTON, Mr. SHEIL, Mr. LYNCH, and the other leading Mem bers of the House of Commons, as to the measure to be brought into Parliament this evening for the bet ter regulation of the profession of Attorney and Solicitor in Ireland. We understand the profession in Irelrnd simply seek to be incorporated under the controul of the Judges, and not to form part of the presant Inn of Court in Ireland, thereby assimilating their body to the profes s on in tlis country and'in Scotland. ly the arrival of the Tagus steamer at Falmouth on Sunday, we have received important intelligence from Lisbon to the evening of the 14th inst. :inclusive. That capital was then the theatre of another political convulsion, which for a time threatened the stability of the Throne itself ; and we are far from certain that all danger to the permanence of Royal authority is yet over. According to the most probable accounts received, rumours having been circulated that the QUEEN, dissatisfied witch the Constitu tion, intended to dismiss her Ministers, a .nd to select for her advisers persons known to be favourable to the Charter of 1826, Senhor SOARES CALE , EIRA, Civil Go vernor of Lisbon, and Superintendent of Police ; Senhor FRANCA, Commander of the Arsenal Battalion; and Senhor MANTAS, Commander of thellsth Battalion of National Guards, at a monthly review of the National Guards on Sunday the 4th instant, called upon tb e men to sign a petition to the QuEEN, which they were to pre sent, insisting that her MAJESTY in changing her Cabinet should only select persons noted for their firm adherence to the Constitution of .s.;eptember. Se veral of the corps declined to interfere witth the exercise of the Royal prerogative ; but the 14th, 15th, 17th, and 18th battalions, amounting to upwards of 3,000 men, well armed, declared in favour of the preposittion of the Civil Governor and his accomplices, and inst antly seized the arsenal, the gates of which they guarded with four howitzers. As soon as these events beta me known to the Government, the 2d, 10th, 16th, and 17t11 corps of regular infantry, two squadrons of lancers, and a strong detach ment of the artillery of the line—in all a bout 8,000 men, moved in the direction of the arsenal, to c ompel the insur gents to lay down their arms. Their ap pearauce excited no alarm ; and so little did many of the m relish the ser vice, that, according to two eye-witness es of the scan dalous conduct they narrate, a random n shot fired by some individual filled the gallant def end ers o f their QUEEN with such direful trepidation„ that hundreds of them threw down their arms, and fled in every direc tion, to the great amusement of the spectators. Her MAJESTY'S Generals, finding the insurget it s i n no mood to run at the sight of so imposing a force, ; ind having them selves no stomach for fighting, entered into negociations with Senhors FRANCA and SOARES CALDEIRA for the peaceable evacuation of the arsenal. In these negotiations the greater part of a day was spent, and after the insur gents had kept possession of the arsenal for four days, the authorities on both sides signed, on the 9th, the following articles : " Ist. That all the citizens of the Natianal Guards and of the Arsenal Battalion shall retire from the Arsenal before three o'clock this afternoon. 2d. That the guard at the gate shall be composed, until Further orders, of the National Guards, to be appointed by :he new Civil Governor. " 3d. That at the same moment the troops in the Arsenal shall begin to file, the troops of the line shall also return to their quarters. " 4th. That no hostile measures of any nature whatsoever shall hereafter be adopted against any individual who may have taken part in the events of the last few days." On leaving the arsenal the insurgents were greeted by the populace with loud cheers, and retired to their home bearing the arms with which they had defied their SOVZ-. REIGN, in triumph along with them. Her MAJESTY, how ever, was not satisfied with the concessions made to the insurgents by Senor SA DA BANDEIRA, and without con sulting her Ministers, signed the dismissal of all the Chiefs who had taken part with them, and likewise ordered that the disaffected battalions should forthwith be deprived of their arms. SA DA BANDEIRA remonstrated against such a proceeding as involving a violation of the arsenal articles ; but failing to make any impression upon the Royal will, himself and his colleagues tendered their resignations, which were accepted—the QUEEN merely insisting that he should retain ad interim, the Portefeuiles of the Foreign, War, and Home departments, and Senor JOSE DX OLI.• VEIRA, those of Justice, Finance, and the Interior, till another Government could be formed, which, she added, would be effected with the least possible delay. The instant the QUEEN'S determination to disarm the National Guards was made known, the disaffected as sembled in crowds,: and summoned their leaders to put themselves again at their head. They took possession of the Convent of Jesus in the City, and prepared to defend themselves to the last. In the mean time the QuENN ordered circulars to be addressed to the Cortes to meet her at the Palace on the morning of the 13th, when after a tedious discussion it was resolved to suspend the habeas corpus, and to disarm without further delay the refractory corps. To give effect to this vote the troops of the line were marched to attack the Convent, which they carried with a loss to the insurgents of several killed and forty prisoners. The insurgents retreated first to Graca-hill, and next to the Rocio-square, where a rather sharp engagement took place between them and the troops of the line. They were finally dispersed after sustaining a loss of about 40 killed and 90 wounded, exclusive of prisoners. By another account the loss of the in surgents in killed and wounded, is estimated at 400. Thus is reported to have terminated the latest revolu tionary movement in Portugal. The QUEEN is said to have acted throughout this affair with much firmness, dig nity, and presence of mind ; but nevertheless, we cannot divest ourselves of the impression that these enzeutes are as much the consequences of Court intrigues, as incontro vertible proofs of the refractory spirit of the people. Something must be done to put a stop to such manifesta tions of the weakness and unpopularity of the Portuguese Government, or the country will fall a prey to a tumultuous anarchy, a thousand times more pregnant with the seeds of social disorganization and moral depravity than the most r ruthless despotism. Portugal and Spain both want re ' pose. Under the Constitutions now granted to them they have more liberty than they have intelligence to regulate for their own advantage ; and, therefore, while it would be preposterous to extend their political privileges, none but an enemy to the reigning Sovereigns would recommend an infringement of privileges, which are often the more valu able the less they are understood. The Portuguese have not acquired that degree of intelligence essential to a people upon whom it would be safe in a Govern ment to make political experiments. The Constitution is their political creed, and in its efficacy they believe as firmly and not less blindly than they do in the dispensing power of the POPE : consequently they see in every violatio❑ of it a heresy subversive of all that gives them a political being. All intrigues, therefore, against the Constitution are as dangerous as they are impolitic, and betray at once the rashness and the ignorance of those who encourage them. At the same time, the Go vernment should perform its functions with a firm hand, so as to convince the people that the Constitution in conferring rights, imposes arduous duties, which Ministers have both the will and the powor rigorously to •exact. We are glad to learn that neither the English fleet in th e Tagus, nor any of the English residents in Lisbon, took any part in the late political convulsion. The following is a copy of the Proclamation addressed by the QUEEN to the Portuguese nation, after the sitting of the Cortes of the 13th inst.:— " PROCLAMATION. " Portuguese I—When, after so many political convulsions, the constitution of the monarchy, an iris of peace, and a pledge of alliance and reconciliation amongst all Portuguese, was about to be sworn to ; when after painful pecuniary difficulties the Cortes had found means to remedy our greatest evils ; when, in short, all things concurred to afford a hope that Por tugal would soon return to the enjoyment of days of happiness and prosperity—a small number of deluded men, with arms in their hands, menace social order, and denying me the exercise of the prerogatives, with which, by the Constitution, I am in vested, seek to light the torch of discord once more in their country. " Treated by my orders with a moderation of which they have shown themselves unworthy, they continue their attempts against the majesty of my throne by openly resisting the authority which the fundamental law gives me, of freely ap pointing and dismissing public servants ;—attempts which become the more criminal for being made in the face of the constituent Cortes, from whom I have, under all circum stances, received the most convincing proofs of respect and " Portuguese, it is necessary to terminate, without delay, a state of things which threatens the total subversion of social order : it is necessary that we should all unite in order that the ferocious anarchy which menaces our country should be for ever suffocated. " Certain of your love for order, and assured that you know your own int erests , I re l y on your support to defend the con stitution of the monarchy, the dignity of the throne, and the national representation. (Signed) " THE QUEEN " Palace of Necessidades, March 13, 1838." Th ,e whole of the Paris Journals of Sunday have been received. With the exception of the following extracts, they contain no news of any interest : " THE APPROACHING CAMPAIGN IN CIRCASSIA.—(From Le Commerce).—We have the following letter, dated War saw, March Ist:—' It appears that the Emperor Ni cholas intends that the war in Circassia shall be car ried on upon a much larger scale, and that he has even some intensions against Persia, for it is certain that a proposal has been made to Field-Marshal Paskewitsch to take the command of the army of the Caucasus, and that this army is to be raised to the number of 100,000 men, effec tive, besides the garrisons of the town and fortresses, and the troops which occupy the military lines of the Caucasus. A General so distinguished as Prince Paskewitsch Erivanski, the only Field -Marshal in the Russian service, has certainly not been called upon to command an army intended merely to make war on isolated mountaineers, not to mention that an army of 100,000 men would be more embarrassing than useful in such a war ; it therefore seems certain that the Czar, while on the one hand he is amusing Europe with his plan of a visit to Germany, by his future conferences with his two absolutist colleagues, and by his threats of intervening in Spain, is preparing, on the other hand, means of extending his conquests in Asia, and of opening a way to British India. " Field Marshal Paskewitsch is so far from making a mys tery of the new command which has been proposed to him, that he has invited the Polish General, Prondzynski, an officer of great talents, to accompany him to Asia, and has offered him the post of Chief of the General Staff, and Quarter-Master- General of the army of the Caucasus. General Prondzynski who lives in retirement at Sandomir, has not dared directly to reject these proposals, but he has spoken of his bad state of health. However, if the Field Marshal goes to his ne- des tination, we may be sure that General Prondzynski will go likewise ; for in Russia, a proposal made:by a superior, is an order, and he who dares to reject it, may be assured, that he will be sent to hunt the Sable in Siberia."—Le Commerce. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees says, " A column of 3,000 men , and 400 horses, from the Ribeira, arrived at Pampe luna on the Bth inst., having escorted from Tafalla a convoy of provisions for that capital ; also the mail from Saragossa. A typhus fever has broken out in the hospital of Irache, half a league from Estella, and is being fatal among the sick and wounded. It was feared that the infection would reach Estella, on which account Don Carlos and his Court were to leave that place on the Bth, and go to Villa Franca and Gui Moniteur. auscoa.-- Dutch and German papers have been received this morning. The States-General of Holland have adopted the report presented to them for paying the interest upon the debt ; but great difficulty has arisen on the question of the proportion of the debt to be borne by Belgium. The Members of the Second Chamber are most anxious that some understanding might take place with the Government of LEOPOLD, in order to adjust this very important ques tion. As this must be preceded by an official acknow ledgment of the independence of B e l g i um, we see no pros pect of a settlement of this point during the life-timo of King WILLIAM, FREEMASONS' LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. We have seen a privately-circulated prospectus of a new As surance Company under the above title. The idea is a good one. All denominational Assurance Companies have suc ceeded. The Lawyers have one, the Doctors have one, the Parsons have one, the Quakers have one, the Dissenters have one—why should not the Freemasons have one likewise? By the way, in one respect this Freemasons' Institution seems to have copied the plan of Mr. Northhouse the founder of the Dissenters' Assurance Company, in awarding one-tenth of the profits to benevolent purposes. The Dissenters' Insurance Company took deep root, and is widely flourishing from this union of business and benevolence. The Freemasons, we doubt not, will have the same good fortune. They &form a species of benefit societies already, and hence are more legitimately the objects of a life assurance principle than any of the classes of the community we have named ; and encouraged, as we understand this benevolent and prudent In stitution will be, by the illustrious Prince who presides over the English brethren, and whose love of science and benevo lence make him the ornament of Masonry and his country, we are satisfied it will b e em i nent l y successful. 4 PURIFICATION OF THE ATMOS MERE. The nuisance, waste of fuel, and other inconveniences con sequent upon the emission of smoke from the furnaces of steam boilers are evils generally known, and from the earliest introduction of steam machinery, many endeavours have been fruitlessly made to remove, or abate these evils. The thou sands who, during the summer months are in the habit of making short trips in steam vessels to Gravesend, Margate, Ramsgate, and the various places which afford a tem porary retreat from the din and bustle of this great metropolis, can testify how much the pleasure of their voyage has been alloyed by the disagreeable smell which issues from the centre of the vessel where the steam boiler is placed. Then as regards railways : many railway Bills have been op posed (aud justly) on the ground of the nuisance which the smoke of the engines would occasion to the country through which they passed; and Parliament has more than once im posed a condition that the Railway Companies should employ furnaces which would consume their own smoke. Now in order to comply with this enactment, they have been com pelled to use coke instead of coal, at an annual average increase of expendiutre of 1001. per mile. We this day witnessed a new patent smoke-burner in operation on the premises of the patentees, Messrs. Chanter and Co., Earl-street, Blackfriars. Without entering minutely into all the details of the invention, it may be sufficient briefly to state, that its principle essentially consists in so arranging the form of the furnace, and position of the bars, that the un carbonized gas (which in the usual system is dispersed in smoke) is compelled to pass through the most intensely ignited portion of the fuel, by reverberation of the current against a descending plane, constructed in the boiler, and allowing for the gas no other egress. The result is, that not one particle of smoke escapes from the chimney ; nor is this all, for by thus consuming the smoke, the fire is rendered much more in tense, and a great economy of fuel is effected. The inven tion_is varied in twelve different forms, applying to every de scription of furnace. A vast number of engineers, chemists, and scientific men have expressed their approbation of the in vention, which appears truly deserving of public approval and adoption. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HULL. The Committee met at eleven o"closi, when Mr. TUESSIOER resumed his arguments in support of the qualification of the sitting Member, Mr. Wilberforce. Mr. HUMPHREY replied on some cases which had been cited in the course of the arguments on the other side, and had not concluded at the time of our going to press. SHAFTESBURY. The Committee met this day at eleven o'clock, when the scrutiny into the vote of Robert Waring (objected to for non-papment of retest NV RS proceeded with. EVESHAM. The Committee again met at eleven o'clock. Mr. COCKBURN said an arrangement had been made by which the Committee would very soon be released of its labours. As the parties were then even on the poll, he would proceed to strike one vote from the poll of Mr. Borthwick, and so place Lord M. Hill in a majority. He thee called Benjamin Murrell, who deposed that he was agent for Mr. Borthwick at the last election, and voted for him. He was paid. Vote struck off. Mr. Ausrm then ssid that he gave up the scrutiny ; and there was then only one point on which he was bound to trouble the Committee. It was in reference to the decision of the Committee by which Mr. Borthwick was held to be guilty of bribery in presenting a snuff-box t• the voter, Pearce. He, and those Learned Friends who acted with him, were on that occasion taken by surprise, as when they left the room they expected the Committee were merely going to decide the points of law relative to the validity of the resolutions of 1697. The Counsel did not feel that the snuff box ease pressed, or they would have called evidence to place it in a very different light. He, of course, did not mean to impugn the deci sion of the Committee, but as the matter was extremely hurtful to Mr. Borthwick, as well as to his Counsel, and as he could pledge himself to give a totally different colouring to the affair, he hoped the Committee would grant them the opportunity of taking from the resolution of the Committee those penal consequences which then attached to it. He trusted they would hear fresh evidence upon that particular case. Mr. COCKBURN was satisfied in having got the seat for his client, and would be glad if his Learned Friend would put the question upon a bet. ter footing. The room was then cleared, and was not opened for upwards of an hour, when Counsel were called in and informed, that the Committee had decided that they could not re-open the case. Mr. COCKBURN said, on the part of the petitioner, he had then only to claim the seat for Lord Marcus Hill, and that the Committee would draw up the usual resolutions accordingly. The room was then cleared. In half an hour the Counsel and agents were called in, and informed that the Committee had come to resolutions declaring that George Rushout, Esq., had been duly elected to serve in Parliament for the bo rough of Evesham ; that Peter Borthwick, Esq., was not duly elected, and ought not to have been returned ; that Lord Marcus Hill was duly elected, and ought to have been returned as one of the burgesses to serve in Parliament for the borough of Evesham ; and that Peter Borthwick, Esq., had been guilty of bribery. DUBLIN. At the meeting of the Committee this morning, Mr. Roebuck was heard against the legality of the "Paving and Lighting-rate," for non payment of which the vote of Joseph Ormsby was yesterday objected to, by the petitioners. The Learned Gentleman showed from a review of the evidence of the secretary and inspector (Messrs. Reilly and Maguire) that, in no one material particular connected with the levying of the rate, had the enactments of the Act of Parliament, under which the Board of Commissioners was constituted, been complied with. For every ma.. terial act connected with the rate a deed was necessary, under the bands and seals of the Commissioners, and with a stamp. In the assessment and applotment of the rates, alleged to be unpaid by Ormsby, and a large number of electors in the same class, there had been no deed, and in a previous rating in which there was a deed there was no stamp. These Commissioners, who were empowered to tax the inhabitants of Dublin to the amount of forty thousand pounds a-year, disregarded all form and order. They had no right to delegate their authority, and yet the assessment was left entirely to thediscretion of the inspector, an inferior officer, acting upon the private suggestion of a single Commissioner. There was no publication of the assessment— there was no fixed time for making it. Some years it was made —(and made in the private and unauthorised manner above-stated) — in January:; sometimes, in Feb. ; sometimes in March ; and so on, without any intimation to the inhabitants, or any formal and official act of the Commissioners. The rate was altogether illegal and invalid, and ought not to be paid. Mr. KEATINGB in reply read copious extracts from the Act of Parlia ment, and certain deeds of the Commissioners, which chewed that if they had not performed a deed under their own hands and seals in the case of this individual rate, they had done so in former rates. He contended that it was necessary for the purposes of the Act, that the authority of the Commissioners should be sometimes delegated to their officers. If the rate were illegal, the time for impugning it had passed by, as the rate-payers ought to have appealed. Mr. ROEBUCK replied. The room was then cleared, and on the re-admission of strangers The CHAIRMAN stated that the Committee were unanimously of opinion that the rates of 1836 and 1837 were valid rates. YOUGHAL. The Committee allowed the vote of Mr. John Pollock, as the eldest son of a freeman, although registered since the passing of the Re. form Bill. The rote of the Rev. P. Scott Smith was then objected to. The voter had been admitted a freeman as the eldest son of his father ; but it was proved that his eldest brother, who was dead at the time of the voter's admission, had been admitted on the right which the Mr. Scott after wards claimed. The vote was struck af. MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). HUNGERFORD MARKET. Fish to-day in fair supply, prices reasonable, and trade to a fair ex tent. Cod, 2s. to Ss., 95., and 10s. on an average. Turbot, ss. and 6s. to 20s. for large. Soles, 9d. to 3s. per pair. In Meat no ♦ariation from our quotations of Saturday, except perhaps that Beef and Mutton are a little easier. Vegetables much as Covent-garden, which we last re ported. Hay and Clover firm in price. BERMONDSEY WATERSIDE POTATOE MARKET. Supplies large of all kinds, but the quality generally inferior. But little business done, except in the best descriptions. Prices firm of the best sorts. Inferior could not sell even at a reduction of three or four shillings. PROVISION MARKET. The only novelty in this market is, that Butter and Bacon of all kinds are going down in price. HAY MARKETS. 'I here was a good supply of all kinds of dry provender except straw, which was in but moderate quantity. Prices of most kinds remain much as before. Meadow Hay, 90s. to 955. and 102 s. Clover ditto, 106 s. to 115 s. and 1225. Straw, on the average, about 40s. DRIED FRUIT MARKET. There is a steady business doing privately, and prices continue firm. OIL MARKET. Prices are little better than nominal, and the market is as dull as can well be conceived. TALLO W MARKET. This market is quiet, and the price to-day much as yesterday, 575. 6d. on the spot, and 475. 6d. to 48s. for delivery. COLONIAL MARKETS. There were a considerable number of public sales to.day of Sugar of different kinds, Cassia Lignea, Ginger, &c. 3,900 bags Bengal, and 773 bags of Mauritius Sugar, 2,059 bags of Malabar Ginger, a little In digo, and some Cochineal. The market generally remains unaltered from that inactivity by which it was pervaded last week. But little disposition exists to purchase. The large quantities did not all sell, and prices where altered are again lower. In Coffee of any kind no business was done to-day. Tea is quiet, in face of the nearly approaching sales. In Rice and Cotton nothing scarcely stirring. For to.morrow we have again large sales of all kinds of Sugar advertised, except Mauritius. There are also some Drugs and Saltpetre. These are the principal. The im ports are light; the exports continue rather considerable, and the deliveries at the customs for consumption continue to a fair extent. British Plantation Sugar continues to sell without any anima. tion whatever. ------ LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Maacn 19. A ♦ery brisk demand has taken place for Cotton this day, and a large amount of business was transacted at rather higher rates for middling sorts. 7,000 bales are the quantity sold :-50 Laguayra, 71d. ; 500 Bahia 70. to 71d.; 150 Maranham, lid. to 91d.; 250 Pernam, p 1.4 d. to 91d.; 200 Surat, 41d. to 51d. ; 5,850 American. On the Ist inst. the British bark Reliff, laden with coals, was totally wrecked off Peder Neira ; the master and four of the crew were saved, the remaining three met with a watery grave : and on the 3d inst., a Belgian brig, name unknown, was also totally wrecked under the fort of St. Braz and Cabo Razo—crew saved. The proprietor of an immense number of waterside carts in Liverpool, who has raised himself by industry to be a man of considerable property, being in close conversation with a gentleman about some private business, was asked by the gentleman if he could draw an inference. " Not I," said he, " but I bought a bay snare the other day, and I'll lay a five pound note that she draws it, if it does not weigh more than five tons." — Liverpool Telegraph QUICK PASSAGE.—The quicket passage ever made to Pernambuco was made in the autumn by the James Mat thieson, of this port, which arrived out at Pernambuco in twenty.!our days from leaving the Downs.—Liverpool Albion, This case was before their Lordships no less than sixteen years ago, when it was ordered to be adjourned, that further evidence might be produced in support of the claim, This morning that further evidence was proceeded with, and occupied their Lordships till we left. During the interval that has occurred since the case was before their Lordships,the then claimant, Alexander Home, has died, and his son now claims the title of Earl of Marchmont, Viscount Blazonberry, Lord Pol wart of Polwart, Redbraes, and Greenlaw. The circumstances out of which the claim arose were the following :—Sir David Home of Wedderburne in Berwickshire, the common ancestor of the families of Wedderburn and Polwart, was a person of high consideration in the 15th century. He died 1469, having a son David,':avho predeceased him, leaving two sons, George Home, wh o succeeded his grandfather, Sir David, in thefa mily estates of Wedderburne, and Patrick Home, afterwards Sir Patrick Home, of Polwart ; the descendant of whom was Lord Chancellor of Scot land, and in 1690, was created Lord Polwart, by King William and Queen Mary, and by Letters Patent from King William, dated at Kensington, the 23d of April, 1697, he was raised to the dignity of Earl of March mont. By descent from him, the present claimant laid his right to the title. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) Their Lordships at to-day in a Committee of Privileges. The present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Duke - of Sutherland, Lord Brougham, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Hunting • don, the Marquis of Bute, Lord Bexley, and Lord Kenyon. THE MARCEMONT PEERAGE. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The AfasTER of the Rous was engaged the whole of the morning with consent petitions and short causes. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) SITTING OF THE COURT. Upon entering the Court this morning the VICE-CHANCELLOR Stated he had received a notice from the Clerk of the Privy Council, stating that it was likely her Majesty would on Thursday refer a matter, re quiring dispatch, to the Judicial Committee, and that it was probable his Honour would be summoned to attend. Mr. KNIGHT and Mr. WALEFIELD intimated that it would be rather convenient if his Honour should be absent on that day, as the judg ment in Small v. Attwood was to be given on Thursday, and several leading Counsel, practising at his Honour's Bar, would necessarily be absent. ♦NONYMOUS LETTER.—WARD OF COURT. His Honour the VicE-CstaxcELLoa stated that he had received an anonymous letter, and as he considered it was the duty of a Judge, who received such communications, to make them public, he would read the letter. His Honour accordingly read the letter, which accused a gen tleman of having defrauded the London University of a large sum and fled to France. We do not think ourselves warranted in publishing the name of the parties. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY): TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Gibraltar Papers to the 10th of March. They state that " there is reason to believe that Basilio's remnants continue on the road from the capital to the neighbouring province. Another mail came in, but again without any letters or papers from beyond the Sierra Morena." The packet has also brought the Cadiz papers from the 2d to the 6th instant. They contain almost countless reports respecting the move— ments of Basilio and Tallada. As far as we can discover, their return to the neighbouring provinces, after being driven to seek refuge in that of Murcia, is not accounted for. The Spanish Consul at Gibraltar published two bulletins ; printed at Malaga, in reference to the official accounts he received, which states that the united bands of La Mancha and Tallada were completely beaten, with the enormous loss of 2,500 men killed or taken, besides a great many horses; that Ta!lada's followers, overtaken and defeated by General San; were wandering in small parties over the province of Almeria. Malta papers received to the 22d February, bring accounts frAn Smyrna to the Bth February, and from Constantinople of the sth February. Some changes in the councils of the Grand sultan are announced which have created surprise. Reschld 'dey, so lately appointed to the departmcnt of Foreign Affairs,, will it appears be sent Minister to the Court of France, and Fethi- Achmet to the Court of London. The new Minister for Foreign Af fairs is not as yet named. It seems, on the other hand, that negotia tions of the greatest importance, en the affairs of the East, are about to be entered upon with the powers of the first order. The most important arrival this morning is the Lisbon mail, which brings accounts of an attempt at an insurrection in that capital. THE FUNDS. The accounts from Lisbon have not had any effect on the Consol Mar ket this morning ; closed at 93 to 931 for Money and Account, opened this morning at 93 to 93/, Money 92% 93, little doing as yet. Ex chequer Bills, 62 64 ; India Bonds, not marked, 10s. In the Foreign Market the chief operations are in Portuguese and Dutch Stocks; the former have not receded more than about 1 per cent., closed at 301, opened at 291, now 291 30 ; Spanish Active closed 21211, same with coupons; Dutch Stock closed at 523 53, and improved this morning to 534 54, owing to an account in the Dutch papers arrived this morning from Berlin, that negotiations were again opened between the Dutch and Belgians. Brazilian closed with an improvement owing to its being stated that the Brazilian dividend would be adver tised this morning; closed at 781, and opened at same. HALF-PAST TWELVE. Since writing our foregoing article, Consols have improved to 931 money, and 93* for the account. Brazilian improved' to 79i ; Dutch also improved to 54k, owing to a report that the Dutch Government •nly require a loll?. of " e million. Both the British and Foreign Markets are in a lively state. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock - India 5t0ck......,, 3 per Cent. Red. — Ditto Bonds .... 2 IP P I nir g : '. 3 per Cent. Cons, 93 3 South Sea stock 5y4 per Cent.-- ....- ........... Old Annritte g Ditto Red — New Chao.. _-- DE:it:oho. C.Blo:l.Zeric,ioao: )............... 14 6: pm. 100;i% 1 3 per Cent. Ann so( u o l . t ).. i . e . ........................ New 34 per Cent New 5 per Cent. Ba j n a k n. Lo s n . g l A B6 n o nuittestoexpire -- Ditto Small .................. 64 62 inn. Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 l5 1-16 1 4 Ditto Advertised . Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock fur At , ' .—.. .. _ J ALr . i April . 5 5 . , 1 1 8 7 0 ) — PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds - Ditto Account • Portuguese Bonds Brazilian Bonds 79 Ditto Account ..... ............ Ditto Account 78% 9 Ditto New Bundy ........... ... ~, Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account .............. 29% .." Ditto Account — Ditto, 3 per cent.... ........... Ditto Bonds , ..... .... ........ .. Prussian 80nd5..., Ditto Account — Russian Bands, IW:2 - Columbian Bonds 27 Ditto Account Ditto -- Account Ditto Account 28%34 9 Ditto Account -- Danish Bonds .... .. Ditto Account ..... Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1825 — ---- 4 per cent .......... —II --c. Ditto Account - ........ --- 3 per cent. ........ , . _f. - -c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. --- Exchange ..... - .. --c i Ditto Account .... — Dutch, 2% per cent ...;r34, % 4!4 Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account 29% Ditto. t per cent..„. 103 4 3•X 7. Neapolitan — Ditto Account PRICES -.- OF SHARES THIS DAY AT OWE O 'CLOCK Bristol and Exeter Railway C ompany Paid. Per Shoe' . in Great Western Railway C ompany . .... 65 p 2 9 ~ ........ Hull and Selby Railway C ompany le4 ... ......... 10 Brighton Railway Company ............................ 8 10 7:34,0 4 London and Biackwall Railway .... London and Birmingh am Railwr4 Co m p any ...... o 5 n London Grand Junction Railr"" 5 17:156 2 Yanchester and Birminglia; n R a i1„ y........ 10 3 4 11 Asphalte Provincial Bank of Ire,',and.... 2 6 5 1 0 25 4134 3 per CePnRICES CF IRISH STOCKS, DU BLIN, MARCH 17. t. ConS-ols ............. 92% Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 9l Ditto Red l l.Ced — Ditto, 4 per cent. 3% per Cel i t. St oc k 99% Hibernian Bank 4 Ditto New, 1830 3% per Cent. Debe n t ures - Bank Stock - Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock 29% cent„.... ----" HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. The blockading squ a d ron b e f ore Bahia, belonging to the: Imperial Government, according to the Rio Janeiro papers, consists of the fol. lowing vessels : Prince Imperial 7th April ....... ....... corvette. 22 29th August ... ...... brig 3d May brig l4 -... Pertaxo Nicteohy .... Bark (No. 1.) Charcua Carioca : , ccount India Stock for Account Consols for Acconnt 93 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOC - K Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account ......... ••• • • 6 -„ Total... .................. (inns. The Amsterdam Pap er o f t h e 17th instant ` l4O stocks there was great activity, and a manifest desire to ha purchase, home even before the opening o f th e Exchange, as usual with, great variation i n prices. There was no l ac k of reports:respecting the rises ; i n t h e m ean time it was ascerta i ned that accounts had been received from the Tt in our Hague. By some it was stated that the rise was owing to the Minister of Foreign Affairs having made, to the States General, some important communication ; others, that the Minister of Finance had withdrawn his plan of the projected loan, but in the mean time we wish to repeat to our readers what we stated i s a former paper, that it was expected at Berlin that the negotiations coneerning Belgium wer e to be resumed. The principal operations were in the Two and a Half per Cents. Dutch, and Billets de Chance." To the above rnmy be at' tributed the rise this morning in the Dutch funds. Consols may be quoted at 98 IA for the Account ; and for Money, 93 . Exchequer Bills lower, 64 62 ; India Bonds, 66 ; Bank and India Stock Out. In the Foreign Market there has been groat activity during morning in Dutch and Brazilian St oc k s; t h e former reached 54 4-3/, present may be quo t e d a t 54 ; B raz ili an has been done at 79 ; Spani ,h Active continues heavy at 201 to 211 ; P ortuguese, 29} 30; Three per Cents., 191 4 ; Mexican, 281 ; C o l om bi an, 2 8 1 29. We have no f ur th er arr i va l s t o th e present time. The Neer York packet ships of th e I s t M arc h , are expected every day. Shares, little doing, and most of them low er. the THREE 0' C'Z 0 cir• Consols for the Account, 93h. THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PR.ICES. BRITISH FUNDS. .... ........ •........ -- I Omnium ..... India Stock . — Ditto Itor.d a South Sea Stock - Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annintiec Ex. :dIl '..8,, 10001 . °34d.... (2 FD2 Ditto 5001 62 pm. Ditto 50(11 f 2 pm- Bank Stock for Opg. — Won Stock for Act. Consols for Feb. i FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent........... .. Portuguese Bonds, rl 1.); .... ... 95 i Belgian, 5 per cent. ...........•• Ditto, Now Ditto. .... . ...... . ..... au 1 -•— Brazilian Bonds ............... ... 79 Prussian, 5 per cent Buenos Ayres, 8 per cent. — , Russian Bonds, ;;per cent •••• -- Chilian, 6 per cent I Ditto, Metallic „, - 21 Colombian, 6 per cent. — ; Spanish. 5 per cr.nt ..... Ditto, 1824 ........................ 29 I Ditto. ConsoT.id•ated. Danis, 3 per cent French, 5 Pa cent ... Ditto. 6 per cent., 1825 Greek Bonds, 1525,5 pe r cent — Exchange f. Mexican, 5 per cent. .... 4 . --c -i French, 3 p er cent........- ---e 54% Dutch., 2i per cent. ....... ......:,,,,% Peruvian. 1895. II ner rent ... 2!U . Ditto, 5 ne r , •ent. ........ -•••••• • I '''' CLOSING PRICES OF R.:IILWAY SHARES. (THIS DAY.), Bristol and Exeter Railway ... Eastern Counties Railway 92 5% Great NVestern R a il way Hull and Selby London and Bright on R a il way London and Blackwall Railway 1794 London and Bi rm i ng h am Railway 83i 9854 Ditto Bouds 4 p : r Cent., 1 843 .. Lond o n and Southampton Newt London and C roy d on Railway (Scrip ) ll% London G ran d J unction Railway .... Manchester an d L ee d s Railway 39 Mai:filester and Birmin g h am R ailway II Northern and Eastern R a il way s7s 0•S South Durham rtailway Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons 93% 3y., per Cent. 3i4 per Cent. Red Ne w 314 per Cent ..... lOl% 4 per Cent. Assented Dissented . Long Annuities to expire Jas. 1860 l5 7-16 Oct. 1800 Jan.l860 rola:IGO